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United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, completed today a two-day mission to Niger. He called for greater world attention on the massive humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Diffa region, where violence at the hands of Boko...

After a three-day joint visit to Yemen by OCHA, WHO and WFP, John Ging, Director of Operations in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, today drew urgent attention to the desperate humanitarian situation in Yemen, which continues to deteriorate more than a year after the conflict...

With the World Humanitarian Summit just around the corner, the response to Cyclone Winston in Fiji is a timely example of Pacific efforts to build local capacities in coping with disasters.
After the cyclone that destroyed more than 30,000 houses, a massive rebuilding effort is getting underway across...

“It was so frightening with the sea flooding in all around us,” recalled Savenca Taganekece . He was describing running for his life up the escarpment in his small village on the Fijian island of Koro as cyclone-induced tidal waves smashed into his village destroying his home.
Koro Island was...